With all the net catching on to AOL’s VoIP announcements this week, I overlooked the Verizon announcement about VoiceWing and a new lower cost pricing plan. While nothing in the announcement is breakthrough, one has to realize that should Verizon be successful in the acquisition of MCI, then the VoIP market becomes much more of … Read more
Sam Diaz of the San Jose Mercury News has a nice write up about AOL’s VoIP launch that captures the essence of what AOL was looking to tell about their new VoIP offering, CallWays. The USA Today has a more extensive piece where the writer gives kudos to AT&T’s CallVantage vs. AOL. My view is … Read more
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This Thursday AOL officially launches their VoIP product. While I’m embargo from saying more than what already has been written I can say that other than having to install AOL on a naked PC that never had the software on it before which took some time, the service worked very well. Call quality was on … Read more
Austrian VoIP and ENUM expert Richard Statsny has a very good dissection about Skype and their meteoric rise. Ignore the question about Tipping point and get to the thinking below and you will see some very good thinking. I love his ten points, especially the "Be Scared" if you’re a telco.
Convidea is powering WebEx’s VoIP sessions based on this VON Magazine story. This means more advanced features for users of the best web based presentation platform. It also means that WebEx like services will be available from many others as a standard feature. Embedding conference grade presentation into an IP architecture isn’t that difficult, especially … Read more
I was on holiday so some postings on other sites got missed or overlooked. This one from Tom Evslin is worth a read. While it’s nothing that I haven’t expressed, or shared with others privately, I do think he’s right when it comes to Vonage specifically, and with customer service in general. Basically, for companies … Read more
Want to know more about SpeakEasy and their plans with Business VoIP? Check out this interview by Ted @ Weblogs VoIP column. What is interesting are the claims about QoS and the potential for Video. In the business market, a segment Speakeasy knows very well, Video conferencing may have some potential to be a market … Read more
Tom has a post that mirrors my long time view that VoIP is a delivery medium for content. Once the BOX is in your house, why shouldn’t the carriers be delivering content too. Can you spell Trojan Horse strategy for the Baby Bells and even companies like Vonage?
Earlier in the day I posted about IDC making some claims about VoIP growth. Now another report, via Mark Evans, shows more of the same. The questions both reports bring up really are geared towards when, not so much if, in my mind as I feel the Bells will move people to VoIP without their … Read more
